Books We’ve Read Tuesday Evening Book Discussion December 1996 - September 2020 Mansfield Public Library’s Book Discussion Group has been meeting regularly since December 1996, usually the second Tuesday of every month, 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Although we don’t always like the same books, we always find something to talk about and often something to laugh about, too. This friendly group continually welcomes new members. If you can only come on a “drop in- drop out” basis, that’s fine with us. If you haven’t finished the book, don’t worry about it! Extra copies of each book will be available at our library before the discussion. Please join us for a book discussion whenever you can. Bring a friend! 1 Title Author Fiction Titles Reservation Blues Alexie, Sherman The House of the Spirits Allende, Isabel In the Time of the Butterflies Alvarez, Julia Yo! Alvarez, Julia The Penelopiad Atwood, Margaret The Robber Bride Atwood, Margaret Pere Goriot Balzac, Honore Dark Quartet Banks, Lynne Reid Darwin’s Radio Bear, Greg The Teleportation Accident Beauman, Ned A Place Where the Sea Remembers Benitez, Sandra The Lady in the Van Bennett, Alan The Uncommon Reader Bennett, Alan Trans-Sister Radio Bohjalian, Chris Through Black Spruce Boyden, Joseph Boyle, T. Tortilla Curtain Coraghessan Bradley, Kimberly The War that Saved My Life Brubaker 2030: the Real Story… Brooks, Albert Caleb’s Crossing Brooks, Geraldine People of the Book Brooks, Geraldine Burning Angel Burke, James Lee 2 Title Author Girls Busch, Frederick Angels and Insects Byatt, A.S. Possession Byatt, A. S. Oscar and Lucinda Carey, Peter One of Ours Cather, Willa On the Black Hill Chatwin, Bruce Disgrace Coetzee, J.M. Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph A Good Death Courtemanche, Gil I Heard the Owl Call My Name Craven, Margaret Cunningham, The Hours Michael Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie Song of the Exile Davenport, Kiana The Cunning Man Davies, Robertson Fifth Business Davies, Robertson The Manticore Davies, Robertson World of Wonders Davies, Robertson Our Mutual Friend Dickens, Charles Gone So Long Andre Dubus III The Book of Ebenezer Le Page Edwards, G.B. A Cup of Tea Ephron, Amy Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffrey One Thousand White Women Fergus, Jim Shades of Grey Fforde, Jasper Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Ford, Jamie Independence Day Ford, Richard The Jane Austen Book Club Fowler, Karen Joy 3 Title Author Galbraith, John A Tenured Professor Kenneth Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Love Anthony Genova, Lisa Still Alice Genova, Lisa The Little Paris Bookshop George, Nina Ellen Foster Gibbons, Kaye Three Junes Glass, Julia The Overcoat Gogol, Nikolai Intuition Goodman, Allegra The House Gun Gordimer, Nadine My Son’s Story Gordimer, Nadine The Pickup Gordimer, Nadine Across a Hundred Mountains Grande, Reyna Gray, Francine du Lovers and Tyrants Plessix The Comedians Greene, Graham Our Man in Havana Greene, Graham Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Haddon, Mark The All of it Haien, Jeannette Stones from the River Hegi, Ursula Starship Troopers Heinlein, Robert The Sixteen Pleasures Hellenga, Robert Small g Highsmith, Patricia Skinwalkers Hillerman, Tony Smilla's Sense of Snow Hoeg, Peter Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Honeyman, Gail The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled The Bone People Hulme, Keri 4 Title Author Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston, Zora Neale The Hotel New Hampshire Irving, John The Remains of the Day Ishiguro, Kazuo The Summer Book Jansson, Tove News of the World Jiles, Paulette The Crazed Jin, Ha Mr. Pip Jones, Lloyd Animal Dreams Kingsolver, Barbara The Bean Trees Kingsolver, Barbara Prodigal Summer Kingsover, Barbara She's Come Undone Lamb, Wally The Constant Gardener Le Carre, John The Left Hand of Darkness Le Guin, Ursula K. A Gesture Life Lee, Chang-Rae To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper Ben, In the World Lessing, Doris The Fifth Child Lessing, Doris The Grass is Singing Lessing, Doris Finding Dorothy Letts, Elizabeth Eight Months on Ghazzah Street Mantel, Hilary Life of Pi Martel, Yann So Long, See You Tomorrow Maxwell, William Labor Day Maynard, Joyce Tag Man Mayor, Archer McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Alexander Transatlantic McCann, Colum The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers, Carson Nutshell McEwan, Ian Saturday McEwan, Ian Fugitive Pieces Michaels, Anne 5 Title Author The Deep End of the Ocean Mitchard, Jacquelyn Paradise Morrison, Toni Sula Morrison, Toni Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Mosley, Walter A Wild Sheep Chase Murakami, Haruki The True Story of Hansel and Gretel Murphy, Louise Lolita Nabokov, Vladimir One Day Nicholls, David The Things They Carried O’Brien, Tim Wise Blood O'Connor, Flannery The Housekeeper and the Professor Ogawa, Yoko A Prayer for the Dying O’Nan, Stewart The Cat’s Table Ondaatje, Michael Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Packer, ZZ Early Autumn Parker, Robert B. The Flanders Panel Perez-Reverte, Arturo Singing Her Alive Perkins Diana K. My Sister’s Keeper Picoult, Jodi Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi Powell, Patricia Loving vs. Virginia Hruby A Glass of Blessings Pym, Barbara The Alice Network Quinn, Kate Housekeeping Robinson, Marilynne Joy Comes in the Morning Rosen, Jonathan The God of Small Things Roy, Arundhati The Shadow of the Wind Ruiz Zafon, Carlos Fury Rushdie, Salman Her Own Place Sanders, Dori All the Names Saramago, Jose Kinds of Love Sarton, May The End of Baseball Schilling, Peter 6 Title Author The Thirteenth Tale Setterfield, Diane The Killer Angels Shaara, Michael The Art Forger Shapiro, Barbara Unless Shields, Carol Cracking India Sidhwa, Bapsi A Ship Made of Paper Spencer, Scott Angle of Repose Stegner, Wallace The Diamond Age Stephenson, Neal Death of the Black-Haired Girl Stone, Robert Olive Kitteridge Strout, Elizabeth Cane River Tademy, Lalita Bonesetter's Daughter Tan, Amy The Good Thief Tinti, Hannah A Gentleman in Moscow Towles, Amor The Warden Trollope, Anthony The Way We Live Now Trollope, Anthony The Book of Joe Tropper, Jonathan Women of the Silk Tsukiyama, Gail The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark By Blood Ullman, Ellen Jenny Undset, Sigrid Kristin Lavransdatter: the Bridal Wreath Undset, Sigrid Gertrude and Claudius Updike, John The House by the Medlar Tree Verga, Giovanni Warner, Sylvia The Corner That Held Them Townsend Precious Bane Webb, Mary Winter in the Blood Welch, James The Ponder Heart Welty, Eudora The Wedding West, Dorothy The Nickel Boys Whitehead, Colson 7 Title Author Wideman, John Philadelphia Fire Edgar Wideman, John Two Cities Edgar Mrs. Dalloway Woolf, Virginia Nonfiction Titles There was a Country Achebe, Chinua A History of God Armstrong, Karen Black Dog of Fate Balakian, Peter A Very Easy Death Beauvoir, Simone de First, Do No Harm Belkin, Lisa The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Benedict, Ruth Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John The Uses of Enchantment Bettelheim, Bruno Kitchen Confidential Bourdain, Anthony Tattoos on the Heart Boyle, Greg Born Round Bruni, Frank At Home Bryson, Bill A Christmas Memory Capote, Truman Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Chang, Jung Chang, Pang-Mei Bound Feet and Western Dress Natasha Hegemony or Survival Chomsky, Noam Bones of the Master Crane, George 8 Title Author The Hare with Amber Eyes De Waal, Edmund Delany, Having Our Say Sarah & Bessie Nothing to Envy Demick, Barbara Lost Prophet: the Life…Bayard Rustin D’Emilio, John The Year of Magical Thinking Didion, Joan Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dillard, Annie Townie Dubus, Andre Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town East, Elyssa Zeitoun Eggers, Dave Nickel and Dimed Ehrenreich, Barbara The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Fadiman, Anne Being Mortal Gawande, Atul Blink Gladwell, Malcolm David and Goliath Gladwell, Malcolm Graham, Lawrence Our Kind of People Otis Lest Innocent Blood be Shed Hallie, Philip The Lost Painting Harr, Jonathan River Town: two years on the Yangtze Hessler, Peter Seabiscuit: an American Legend Hillenbrand, Laura Riot and Remembrance Hirsch, James S. Infidel Hirsi Ali, Ayaan Tribe Junger, Sebastian Mountains Beyond Mountains Kidder, Tracy On Writing King, Stephen Don’t Think of an Elephant Lakoff, George Couldn’t Keep It to Myself Lamb, Wally, editor Dancing Fish and Ammonites Lively, Penelope 9 Title Author All Souls: A Family Story from MacDonald, Michael Southie Patrick A Long Walk to Freedom Mandela, Nelson 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus Mann, Charles C. Paris, a Love Story Marton, Kati The Color of Water McBride, James Makes Me Wanna Holler McCall, Nathan Coming into the Country McPhee, John Carry Me Home: Birmingham… McWhorter, Diane The River of Doubt Millard, Candice Lipstick Jihad: a memoir… Moaveni, Azadeh A Writer’s House in Wales Morris, Jan Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America Murphy, Jim Speak, Memory Nabokov, Vladimir Reading Lolita in Tehran Nafisi, Azar The Republic of Imagination Nafisi, Azar An Area of Darkness Naipaul, V. S. Born a Crime Noah, Trevor The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell, George Truth and Beauty Patchett, Ann The Memoirs of a Black Southern-New Peters, Englander James S. The Omnivore’s Dilemma Pollan, Michael Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn Pomerantz, Gary God is Not One Prothero, Stephen Tender at the Bone Reichl, Ruth The Undiscovered Paul Robeson Robeson, Paul, Jr. Look Me in the Eye Robison, John Elder An Anthropologist on Mars Sacks, Oliver On the Move Sacks, Oliver Persepolis 1 & 2 Satrapi, MarJane Fast Food Nation Schlosser, Eric 10 Title Author The Bookseller of Kabul Seierstad, Asne You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know Sellers, Heather Mortal Lessons Selzer, Richard Doubt: a Parable Shanley, John Patrick The Girl from Foreign Shepard, Sadia The Island at the Center of the World: the Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan… Shorto, Russell The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Skloot, Rebecca Smith, Mary-Ann Girls of Tender Age Tirone Just Kids Smith, Patti Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an Spellberg, Denise A.